Family Group Sheet
NameJohn Harper
Birth1760, Maryland [1002, http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G-Henderson/GENE1-0001.html]
OccupationOfficer on Privateer ship during Revolutionary War; farmer.
FatherJohn Harper
MotherUnknown (-<1770)
Children
1 FJane HARPER
Birth27 Nov 1800, Monroe Co, VA [1000], [1016], [480, b. 1800]
Death27 Jun 1891, Shenandoah, Fremont Co, IA [1016], [480, date]
BurialFarm Creek Cem, Henderson, Mills, IA [1016], [480, citing “ Incomplete Grave Stone Records of Mills County, Iowa”]
AFNC2SJ-VN
SpouseWilliam McGee
Marriage12 Aug 1820, Monroe Co, VA [246]
2 FElizabeth Harper
Birth1802, Virginia [1002, http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G...E1-0002.html#CHILD2]
Deathaft 1848
SpouseJohn Meadows
Marriage20 Jun 1821, Monroe Co, WV [1002, http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G...E1-0002.html#CHILD2]
Notes for John Harper
"John is the progenitor of the Raleigh County Harper clan. Shirley Donnally once published that his father Hamilton Harper came from New York and was one of the first settlers. After 1830 no more records of John Harper.
NOTES ON THE HARPER AND MCGEE FAMILIES
(Complied in 1961 by Claude D. Kinsman, son of Elizabeth Silkett Kinsman)
My Mother, Elizabeth (Silkett) Kinsman, was raised by her grandmother Jane (Harper) McGee who told of her forebears: John Harper, born ca 1735, and his brother were in business together. They or their families owned and operated plantations in Maryland and Virginia, and they also operated a shipping and export business in Philadelphia and perhaps in Baltimore. During the Revolutionary war they fitted out one or more privateer ships to harass and loot British shipping. John Harper,Jr. born in 1760 and son of John,Sr. was an officer on one of these privateers. His ship was soon captured by the British and he was kept on board as a prisoner for a time, during which some of the British officers amused themselves by hacking the gold buttons on John's uniform, and pushing him around. He was soon paroled, as was the custom at that time with officers. John's treatment as a prisoner seemed to impress my mother strongly and she often told me the story as it had been told to her by her grandmother. She often remarked that she wished that the scarred gold buttons had been kept as mementos and that she could have had one of them. She also related that her grandmother's mother, Elizabeth, was John Harper, Jr.'s third wife. Information on earlier wives is unknown. (http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G...E1-0002.html#CHILD2)
NOTES ON THE HARPER AND MCGEE FAMILIES
(Complied in 1961 by Claude D. Kinsman, son of Elizabeth Silkett Kinsman)
My Mother, Elizabeth (Silkett) Kinsman, was raised by her grandmother Jane (Harper) McGee who told of her forebears: John Harper, born ca 1735, and his brother were in business together. They or their families owned and operated plantations in Maryland and Virginia, and they also operated a shipping and export business in Philadelphia and perhaps in Baltimore. During the Revolutionary war they fitted out one or more privateer ships to harass and loot British shipping. John Harper,Jr. born in 1760 and son of John,Sr. was an officer on one of these privateers. His ship was soon captured by the British and he was kept on board as a prisoner for a time, during which some of the British officers amused themselves by hacking the gold buttons on John's uniform, and pushing him around. He was soon paroled, as was the custom at that time with officers. John's treatment as a prisoner seemed to impress my mother strongly and she often told me the story as it had been told to her by her grandmother. She often remarked that she wished that the scarred gold buttons had been kept as mementos and that she could have had one of them. She also related that her grandmother's mother, Elizabeth, was John Harper, Jr.'s third wife. Information on earlier wives is unknown. (http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G...E1-0002.html#CHILD2)
Notes for Elizabeth Hailton
Elizabeth (Hailton or Hamilton) Harper, 3rd wife of John, Jr., was born 1780 in Virginia or Penn. and died August 3, 1858 in Iowa. (Notes on the Harper and McGee families Complied in 1961 by Claude D. Kinsman, son of Elizabeth Silkett Kinsman cited at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/n/Drema-G...E1-0002.html#CHILD2)
Census notes for Elizabeth Hailton
Not listed by herself in the census. (AIS 2/4/00)
